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CAUTIONARY TALES EPISODE 6
Labor Commissioner’s Office Awards $3.5 Million Against Oakland Contractor The California Labor Commissioner cited Oakland construction contractor, Attic Pros, and its owner for misclassifying 119 workers as independent contractors. The Commissioner ordered the company to pay more than $3.5 million, including unpaid minimum wages and overtime, liquidated damages, waiting time penalties, and civil penalties for […]
WHAT’S NEW FOR 2018 OVERTIME EXEMPTION RATE PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS
OVERTIME-EXEMPT PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS 2018 RATE INCREASES California Labor Code section 515.6 exempts certain licensed physicians and surgeons from overtime compensation as long as they receive set minimum hourly rates of pay. The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) is increasing this minimum, effective January 1, 2018. To avoid California’s requirements to pay overtime premium rates […]
WHAT’S NEW FOR 2018 COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROFESSIONAL RATES
COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROFESSIONAL OVERTIME EXEMPTION 2018 RATES California Labor Code section 515.5 exempts certain computer software professionals from overtime compensation who receive specified minimum compensation. California’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has announced its rate increase for this minimum, effective January 1, 2018. To comply with the section 515.5 exemptions, California employers must pay otherwise […]
WHAT’S NEW FOR 2018 CALIFORNIA ADOPTS BAN THE BOX LAW
Ban The Box California 2018 Means Employers Cannot Seek Criminal Record Until After Offer to Hire Applicant Following San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities and states across the country, California has added a provision to the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) banning employers from asking applicants for criminal convictions before a conditional offer of […]
WHAT’S NEW FOR 2018 SALARY HISTORY
SALARY HISTORY IS NO LONGER A FACTOR FOR HIRING IN CALIFORNIA New Law Also Requires Special Caution When Applicant Volunteers Such Info Effective January 1, 2018, new Labor Code section 432.3 will prohibit all California employers from relying on salary history information as a factor in offering an applicant employment or in what salary to offer. Section […]
CAUTIONARY TALES EPISODE 5
Jack in the Box Operator Must Pay $900,000-Plus for Misclassifying Managers Exempt from Overtime Nor-Cal Venture Group, Inc., the owner of 26 Jack in the Box franchises in California, is one of the recent targets of the Labor Commissioner’s public campaign for employers to heed this state’s wage and hour laws. The commissioner’s Division of Labor […]
CAUTIONARY TALES EPISODE 4
Restaurant Hit with $274,000 In Assessments and Penalties For Underpaid and Unreported Workers The California Labor Commissioner continues to promote her department’s aggressive pursuit of employers who do not comply with wage and hour laws. In August, she targeted a Chula Vista restaurant, Dorantes, Inc., doing business as La Querencia, for back pay to six workers totaling […]
A LESSON IN CALIFORNIA’S WORKPLACE MARITAL DISCRIMINATION LAW
Employee “Marital Status” is Protected; An Employee’s Rocky Marriage is Not California is one of some 21 states prohibiting workplace discrimination against “marital status,” defined in government regulations as an individual’s “state of marriage, non-marriage, divorce or dissolution, separation, widowhood, annulment, or other marital state.” In California, a “spouse” is a partner in marriage, regardless […]
CAUTIONARY TALES EPISODE 2
Two Tow Companies Owe $4.8 Million In Unpaid Minimum Wages, Overtime The California Labor Commissioner has announced a $4,874,661 award against Irvine Auto Towing, Inc. and Yaco Investments, Inc. for multiple wage theft violations affecting 187 drivers, mechanics, and dispatchers. Following a formal administrative proceeding, a hearing officer found these two tow companies had generally paid a flat […]
NEW NOTICE POSTING REQUIREMENTS FOR BARBERS AND COSMETOLOGISTS
CUTTING TO THE CHASE – New Workplace Posting Requirements for California’s Salon Industries, Effective July 1, 2017 Starting July 1, 2017, California’s Board of Barbering and Cosmetology (BBC) requires its licensees – including hair salons, nail salons, estheticians, and barbers — to post a special Labor Commissioner notice on applicable employment laws. The notice includes information […]